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Overview

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5.1/10   187 votes
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Director:
Michael Almereyda
Writer (WGA):
Michael Almereyda (written by)
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Genre:
Drama
Plot:
When an unhappy young woman disappears, her worried sister desperately searches the internet for a clue to her missing sibling's whereabouts. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
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Cast

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Karl Geary ... Eddie Mars / Tom

Shalom Harlow ... Muriel
Clarence Williams III ... Bill

Ally Sheedy ... Lois
Josephine Martin ... Josephine

Gloria Reuben ... Hannah

Liane Balaban ... Amelia

David Arquette ... Eddie

Isabel Gillies ... Isabel
Quintron ... Quintron
Nic Ratner ... Peter
John Sinclair ... Himself
Ernie K-Doe ... Himself
Antoinette K-Doe ... Herself
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Larry Fessenden ... Clifton
Kyle Jason Louque ... Police Officer

Chad Rose ... Fire captain

Billy Slaughter ... Napoleon Bonaparte
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for some language.
Runtime:
89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
USA:TV-14 (cable rating) | USA:R

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Philosophy Made Moving (and sometimes fun), 15 December 2004
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Author: talltale-1 from Jackson Heights, NY

HAPPY HERE AND NOW is one strange film. I wish it were on DVD because I very much want to see it again. Encountering it a couple of years back at a festival of the Film Society of Lincoln Center "picks," I was thoroughly mystified even as, moment-by-moment, I enjoyed the movie. The ensemble cast is a really interesting grab-bag of performers (from Karl Geary to Ally Sheedy, Shalom Harlow, David Arquette, even Larry Fessenden), and the writing and direction is by Michael Almereyda, a moviemaker who keeps growing as he matures. What really knocked my socks off, however, is the ending: a phenomenal feat of film editing by Kristina Boden (and, one presumes, Almereyda) that, in a single continuous succession of splices, brings together the entire movie--theme, ideas, feelings, visuals--so beautifully and fully that I found myself in tears. It's the first and only time that film editing has ever had THIS effect on me! Please, someone, bring "Happy Here and Now" to DVD.

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